Saturday, August 22
Daily News Stuff 22 August 2026
Diseneuropification Edition
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Diseneuropification Edition
Top Story
- All the news is stupid.
- AI use boosts the quality of students' homework - and then craters their exam scores. (Economist) (archive site)
Who knew?
- Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 is a smut machine. (Tech Crunch)
The whole article is about users deliberately jail-breaking Claude Opus 4.6, an older version of that particular LLM, to use it to write porn. And blames Anthropic for it.
Tech News
- Micron is building a $10 billion AI memory research center in Boise, Idaho. (Yahoo)
Not a factory, just a lab.
Good news if you're an AI memory researcher. Or a builder.
- Florida is seeking a court order to classify ChatGPT as a public nuisance. (Tom's Hardware)
This is getting silly.
- Canada plans counter-tariffs to fight tariffs being imposed by the US as trade talks implode. (BBC)
Cratering its economy while barely affecting the US.
- Slovakia bought hundreds of new traffic cameras - only to find that all of the are Russian spy equipment. (Tom's Hardware)
Lowest bidder, huh?
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Stupid! You're so stupid!
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